Meatless Monday: Ms. Porter’s School For MILFs Originally posted on 05/05/2014 for Huffington Post Bling and flowers are always appreciated at Mother’s Day, but what moms really want is to be reminded of the MILFs they are. Okay, there’s that word. Call it female energy, connecting with your womanliness or owning your sexuality, “The MILF…

One summer many years ago, my father had some work around New Orleans and not much money, so he brought my mother and me along and turned it into a holiday. We stayed in what must have been the French Quarter, in a smallish room with wood-slatted shuttered windows opening out onto a narrow balcony….

Going outside to get the paper this morning, I found a piece of notebook paper balled up on my lawn. It turned out to be a handwritten letter — sent not to me, but to Alex, from Emily. I don’t know Alex and I don’t know Emily. Judging by the looks of her precise and…

If you eat the Standard American Diet (or as I call it, the Silly American Diet), Food, Inc. Robert Kenner’s documentary about America’s food industry may be hard to stomach. Go see it, anyway. Because we can’t be healthy if our food system is sick. With the help of Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation) and…

“Don’t eat a beefsteak. If you do the eyes of that cow will pursue you through all eternity.” This isn’t me talking or even PETA’s latest ad campaign. The line comes from James Joyce’s 1922 classic Ulysses. Ulysses takes place in the course of one day, June 16, 1904, when Leopold Bloom, Joyce’s hapless hero…

Harvard Women’s Health Watch says moderate coffee consumption can improve cognitive function and improve endurance performance. It’s rich in antioxidants, too. I like antioxidants, I like cognition and endurance. I also like coffee. I try not to drink it, though. I try really, really hard. I limit myself to a cup a week and won’t…

She’s probably cooked you upwards of 20,000 meals, so do you think giving mom a wilted bunch of daisies is going to cut it on Mother’s Day? Show her the love. Show her the lunch. Make it yourself. When you’re entertaining, especially when the guest is your mother, timing matters. You don’t want to be…